The most important thing is drinking a quality green tea that has been proven by scientific studies to help you increase energy and burn fat!

Green tea keeps you in optimum health. It helps you achieve your goals more easily. It will complement any food and exercise program you choose to follow.

What do successful weight loss stories have in common?

Listed below are 8 important findings that have been proven time and again in countless human case studies. As you read the words on this page, consider how to incorporate them into your green tea diet plan.

Green Tea Diet Plan #1:
Love Your Tea!

Replace your usual beverages with tea.

If you can’t give up your morning Joe right away, just limit yourself to one cup of coffee and follow that with a cup of tea later in the morning. Commit to one or two mornings a week and keep adding days as the week goes by.

Tea diet really works and here is why:

Green Tea Diet Plan #2:
Flexible Daily Schedule or Time Table

A green tea diet is NOT just about drinking copious amount of tea and hope it works. This is a long term process. You need to incorporate green tea in your daily life as part of a change to a more active and healthier lifestyle.

Quality

It is important to go for high quality tea as they are highly potent and contain less impurities. They protect you from any side effects from drinking too much tea.

The highest grade green tea drunk in East Asia is the youngest tea buds harvested in the first three days of spring. You only need 3 to 6 grams a day, which is 3 to 6 cups.

If you are slightly caffeine sensitive to myself, even drinking 1 gram a day can do a lot of good in term of re-charging your energy and keeping you slim.

These tea buds can be infused three times and are economical to drink in the long run.

Timing

Green tea is a negative calorie food - it helps you to increase your metabolism and cause to burn fat and lose weight.

However, it also blocks nutrition absorption such as fat, protein and iron, which is not desirable. It can also causes stomach upset and nausea if you drink it empty stomach or during mealtimes.

The golden rule is to brew a fresh glass of green tea in the morning one hour after breakfast and drink it in between meals. If you are drinking tea buds, they can be steeped three times so you can drink them throughout the day.

More in-depth discussions on using green tea to lose weight can be found in the article below:

Green Tea Diet Plan #3:
Moderate Alcohol Consumption

According to Dr. Barnard, author of A Physician's Slimming Guide, 1 to 2 servings of alcohol a day does not cause any heart problems. If you are pregnant or prone to developing breast cancer, even a small amount can increase your risk significantly.

Occasional alcohol consumption is acceptable. Red wine is the best choice due to its antioxidant properties.

If you are drinking alcohol for health reasons, remember that tea contains far more antioxidants than red wine, and the EGCG in green tea has been found to be twice as powerful as red wine's resveratrol.

Here is how much one serving of alcohol contains in term of calories:

4 ounce of wine contains 85 calories

1.5 ounce of liquor contains 124 calories

12 ounce of beer contains 150 calories

It is widely accepted that alcohol is fattening. But that's not the only reason why it should be avoided. What's important is that drinking alcohol can stimulate appetite and make you want to eat more.

If you eat a potato, you feel full and stop eating. But when you drink alcohol, you want to eat even more, and these calories just get added straight onto your waistline.

Now, that's the theory. In real life, most people get about 40% of their calories from fat! On a typical 2, 000 calories menu, this is 800 calories. We don't realize this because fatty foods are everywhere.

Here are the percentage of fat calories for some animal products:

Milk 35%

Extra lean ground beef 54%

Ground beef 60%

A 1990 Study conducted in Cornell University kept volunteers on several diets for several weeks. They found that those who ate food that was very low in fat and high in carbohydrates lost weight steadily, without limiting how much they ate.